New Liberal Arts, or, bookporn #42: Bourgeois Paper

My much-delayed copy of Snarkmarket’s New Liberal Arts came in the post yesterday! And it occasions a post I should have written some time ago, but which, like many of my thoughts these days, emerged as a tweet and fell promptly into dormancy.
The New Liberal Arts project, if you’ll recall, began earlier this year as [...]

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Curating the Oceans: The Future of Singapore’s Past

First posted to HNN
The Gaspar Strait runs between the Indonesian islands of Bangka and Belitung, some 300 miles southeast of Singapore, where I sit today, writing these words. Its calm, blue surface belies the snarl of rocks and reefs beneath, and the so-called Belitung Wreck is just one of many ships that met its demise [...]

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